<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Tuning lever length</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Now here Bruce went to a great deal of trouble to start a new thread with a</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">proper label on tuning lever length and it has been shanghaied into a</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">discussion on jerks and smoothies</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>hold on thar pardner... I kept my post on topic with the last paragraph  :-)</div> <div><br></div> <div>To expound a bit on the topic, I also like to use a #4 tip to fit deeply onto</div> <div>the pin as close to the coils as I can get.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Like Dale, I don't change tips but head/tip configurations. After stripping</div> <div>many heads early on, I learned what tip matched which heads for my</div> <div>general purposes. For twenty years now I carry 5 units: all heads 5 degrees:</div> <div><br></div> <div>Short head w/ #2 tip</div> <div>Med w/ #3</div> <div>Long w/ #2</div> <div>Long w/ #4</div> <div>and a #2 thinned-wall tip with an adapter.</div> <div><br></div> <div>My two stationary levers are goosenecks and I bent them to 5 degrees also.</div> <div>I prefer the 9.5" (#2) if the strut clearance allows and the pin tightness is not too much.</div> <div>The 11.5" is about a #1 tip (or a small #2) and works well for most Asian pianos</div> <div>or if I need more leverage.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Diverged a bit and ended on topic.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>